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[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bangtail:
[Q] Sumsung repair on bricked GT-I9000M?

posted this question last night:

"Yet another problem with my effing phone. Flashed my Galaxy S (GT-I9000M) to a Froyo ROM, worked fine for about 4-5 days. Then all of a sudden, after not doing a single thing, the phone wont leave sleep mode (or I guess wont turn back on). The touch buttons on the bezel are lit up. Force restart and it hangs at the Galaxy S load screen. Just sits there for a minute or two, goes black, and then comes back. I cant enter recovery more OR download mode. Any suggestions?

Best!"

No one replied, so now instead of trying to fix it myself I'm going to try and send it to Samsung. I obviously know the warranty is voided, but what are the chances of them not really giving a ****, or not noticing that my boot screen says GT-I9000 not GT-I9000M (or other such indicators i diddled with my phone in ways I'm not supposed to)? And if they do notice and I do have to pay, what are their prices like? And turn around? how fast do things come back on average?

Thanks alot guys! :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yiannisthegreek:
Sounds like yet another internal sd card death to our beloved i9000m Bell SGS devices...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sargasso:
You might try the diy jig to get into download mode.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Galody:
same thing happened to me and i had to send it for repairs. i gave it to them they asked for $35 which will be refunded i "it wasn't my fault". they said it will take 2 - 8 weeks. i gae it about 1 week ago. we will see what happens
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BlackDino:
I sent mine back and they repaired it under warranty.

Although it took 4 weeks and now is sim locked to bells network..

My carrier has been trying to get the unlock code for 3 days now, and still no luck :(
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] derek87:
Yeap... Thanks for the info. I was just reading the diy jig on the other thread. Looks good! Cant wait to get to the electrical store later at 8.30am (time they open). haha.. it's 7.30am here now... Thanks btw.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] testulous:
I had this exact same Black Screen of Death, tried Odin multiple different ways (incl repartition, different firmwares, different pit files) and though it said "Success" my phone screen wouldn't turn on, just the touch buttons would light up. Worked fine for a couple of days tho - except for the missing 850MHz band, that is.

Then I took it in for warranty repair. They replaced it with a refurb mainboard.

Short story: don't mess around with Euro Froyo. It'll make babies with your phone.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LeatherFace:
[Q] SAM Galaxy S i9000 BRICKED!! SERIOUS HELP NEEDED

Hello guys...

Think im doomed.. today samsung official released froyo 2.2:p,,, and i updated without even thinking that i have voodoo beta 4 lag fix installed:eek:... now my phone is bricked:(. it starts up then i see the sparkling S logo and then the screeen goes black and after 2 mins or so the touch button lights lit up and thats it. my phone never worked on 3 button recovery mode... i used rom manager or adb. so basicaly i cant do nothing.!! please Help... i donno much abt these things.. so if someone could kindly write to me a step and step procedure on how to get the phone back to working... it will be really appreciated.. I love this phone:(

thanks alot in advance....
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KCutrer1:
You can't use adb from the galaxy s screen?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LeatherFace:
i cant do anything at all. the only button that works is the power button i turn on the phone it shows samsung galaxy s i9000 then the sparkling S logo and after that the screen goes black and the touch button light lits up and its like that.. and yeah i dont exactly know how to use adb apart from a video i watched on youtube. u type a command in cmd c:\androidsdk\tools\adb reboot recovery or reboot download.. rest donno anything about it.. but for that the usb debuggin mode shd be ticked... but here the phone dont even boot.. so how can i...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KCutrer1:
Ahh right I forgot about USB debugging
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LeatherFace:
is there anything i can do to get around this ??? 48 ppl viewed this thread.. i think alot ppl are bricked :(
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rajuki:
I faced the exactly same issue and was freaked out as well. But the solution lies in the Eugene's Unbrick me Froyo ROM, look for it in the forum, flash it and there on you can move on to any FW/ROM of your choice.

And just as a friendly nudge, please use Q&A section to post these kind of issues, this section is for Development related issues.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LeatherFace:
how do i flash it? forum says something about odin3 .. i donno what that is and i have never used it before.. can you help ?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] heeae:
I have this issue,

but you can get into recovery mode (power + volumn up + home, release power until u see the booting logo)

press volumn down to clear internal sd / factory reset, and press home, then reboot,

it was done!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LeatherFace:
there is no 3 button function on my phone it doesnt work.. i have tried every combination from forums and youtube... it just wouldnt work sadly :(
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rajuki:
Oh crap. I didn't read that your 3-button combo doesn't work. Sadly my friend, your phone is destined for Samsung Service center OR, if you are desperate enough, you can try this

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=819551

Good luck.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LeatherFace:
I think it is destined for the repair centre, but luckly i have a samsung repair partner just 10 mins drive and flashing firmwares on the same day( as i have already done that ones:D)

THank yoU all for taking your precious time and replying to my posts..
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Benjamin Dobell:
You can repair it yourself with a small amount of soldering (no direct on device soldering required):

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=819551
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LeatherFace:
thank you for taking your time and replying....i think repair centre it is :D :(
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LeatherFace:
i would play with that, i aint that techi lol.... official samsung repair centre is 10 mins drive and they repair firmware related issues in 2 hrs.. i have already done it on them onces.. so i guess ive to take it again now..

thanks alot ...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aleks07:
I've got the same problem - phone stuck at boot. I can get into download mode, but whatever I flash gives the same results. Would you please post a link to "un-brick" room? The only one I found is in Vibrant forum...:(
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] derek87:
happy! Fixed it.

Hey guys, i have fixed the problem by building a DIY jig as shown in one of the threads, I cant post the link here, coz im a new user. So sorry.

Try this out first before sending in to any service centre.

for resistors, if you cant get exactly the same, 1/4W , just use 1/2W or even 1W, as long as the tolerance is 1%. I try 5%, din work.

Cheers

Derek.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] delly47:
haha just found out the hard way...

black screen of death, after i tried the 3 button recovery
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rajuki:
Yes, that's http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=740558 the one. This will do the trick, at least it helped me (I never flashed JP3 though but I had on my GT-i9000 running JWM- not the stock vibrant ROM, still it worked)

Give it a try. :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sargasso:
Great to hear this, congrats.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danshoker:
Not bricked, but I've got myself into a mess! Please help!!

A while ago, I somehow managed to get JPK running on my handset. Because I didn't have the 3-button recovery mode feature, I managed to run get it on via rooting with the 1-click solution and using the terminal app from the Market place (I can't remember which order). This then allowed me to use Odin to flash JPK.

Then I updated it to JPM without any troubles. Good times.

With the official Froyo coming to the UK via Kies, I figured I'd better unroot my phone and get it back to the JM1 it came with. So I flashed on JM1. I thought it would be a good idea to check it on Kies to see if the official froyo was there, and then it made my phone go crazy - flashing between the desktop and the "connected to kies" screen... Eeek!

I had JM8 knocking around from when I put on JPM, so I thought I'd give that a whirl. Everything is fine now. Kies doesn't show me an update, but it sees the phone. HOWEVER: I can't get into recovery/download with the 3-button combo! So I went to download the terminal emulator from the marketplace, and it turns out that I can't download ANYTHING from the marketplace. Yet my browser loads pages fine...

It looks like I'm stuck on 2.1, and it feels horrible!!! Does anyone have any idea what I need to do next?! I would really appreciate any help!!

Thanks :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dupel:
There is fix for 3 buttons, should have flashed it first.

Can you get into recovery at all?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danshoker:
Nope. Which is why I wanted to download the Terminal app, as I think that's how I originally got there, but it won't let me download *anything*.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dupel:
Use adb reboot recovery (i think its written like this) and write everything from there. Or instal docs our other full rom from clockwork.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danshoker:
Unfortunately I really don't get the ADB stuff :(
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rajuki:
Yeah. But i am quite certain that you can Google the apk for the emulator and move forward from there to the 3 button combo fix. No?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xan:
You will have to. Stop whining, start reading, thinking and acting. Its no magic m8. I think chainfire did some scripts, even with adb included.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danshoker:
Thanks for that - never occurred to me to download the APKs like that. I've got hold of it now. Just trying to get the commands to work now. Will get there eventually!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danshoker:
Thanks for the help everyone.

Managed to find Chainfire's ADB thing, which really helped.

Flashed JPO on to it. All is fine again, and I can download things from the Market again. Although I can't find Uno in the market lol. But I'll survive!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snapper.fishes:
The market download is a Google issue. There's something wrong with the server. Try again at another time.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Samga:
Same problem here, but ls doesn't get any folders in /dbdata.

Any idea?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shrooms90:
Fix for "bricked" internal sd

yesterday i got this error after flashing:

update media, please wait

E:Can't mount /dev/block/stl10

(invalid argument)

E:copy_dbdata_media:Can't mount DBDATA:

your storage not prepared yet, please use UI menu

for format and reboot actions.

copy default media content failed

So i started to google what i can do to fix it, but all i found was that i have to send it in because the internal sd is broken. Since i couldnt belive that i cant do anything to fix this i started to flash around for some hours and i fixed it:)

This is how i did it:

1. I flashed the super optimized jp6/jpm kernel found here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=811660

2. Booted into clockwork recovery and formated every thing (boot, system....)

3. Flashed my stock rom without repartition using odin.

4. Phone booted up again and as i am i learned nothing and flashed uk jp6 so my phone is recognized for keys update;)

Hope that helps u if u get the same error.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ashwinds:
I had this when i updated to JPO. The specific part which fixed it is the formatting.

This error is typical of a /data which is stuck in any non-rfs format. You could have factory wiped data and it would have restored it too.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shrooms90:
Tried it and it gave me the error that it couldnt mount internal storrage to perform factory reset
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ashwinds:
Ah ok - looks like /data was not mounted. There is an option to mount unmounted partitions in clockwork recovery. You could mount it and try the facotry reset and it should work.

Not detracting from your suggestion - just trying to localize it to the required solution so people can avoid steps 3-4 :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shrooms90:
Well its good for others to know that it could work without step 3-4. I tried everything else first. I flashed 5 different firmwares with repartition checked/unchecked. Tried to unmount everything and mount it again using clockwork. Applied all different lagfixes on clockwork rebooted after the reformating progress i just ended up in recovery again so i disabled them. Then i formated everything and flashed my stock rom with repartition checked and i still got the same error. Finally it worked when i formated and flashed without repartition.

But i think people should try if factory reset or mount data and then factory reset works.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smacman:
Good find but that is not the error message that presents with an SD card failure. People that have had their phones bricked were presented with the "Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1" message as opposed to the stl10 message. A flash of any stock firmware from ODIN will normally fix that particular problem.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shrooms90:
Wired, didnt fix it for me. But a friend of mine has the same problem and hes on the way so im gonna check what exactely the error message on his phone sais and report if it fixed it.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] l1ukasz:
i have bricked sgs HELP

Yesterday i installed sztupys android 2.2 on galaxy s. Today i have installed voodoo from recovery(Voodoo-5-pre6-Froyo-GT-I9000.zip). During installation phone rebooted and stuck on galaxy s screen and nothing. What should i do to restore phone?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shrooms90:
The description from my starting post worked for that on my friends phone:-)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kh_Shad:
One guy from 4pda.ru had the same problem. There is one else way to solve this problem. You should to connect your Galaxy s to PC and internal sd will be formated using PC, after this actions everything become to work.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shrooms90:
Thats the same as i did using clockwork mod. But how did he mount his internal sd on the computer without being able to turn on the phone? That would be much easyer
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kh_Shad:
His phone did not turn on. We decided to setup JPO and to setup super optimized jp6/jpm over it. Phone started to turn on but phone did not see internal sdcard. When he used his Galaxy some time, phone noticed sd card but there was a trouble when hi shutdown phone sdcard disappeared. Than we decided to try plug in SGS to PC and formatted internal sd.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aleks07:
Thank you.

Tried that (and about 100 other combinations I found in forum), but result is always the same - boot doesn't go any further then "S" logo. I'm able to go into recovery and even in Clockwork recovery (still have that update.zip on my internal SD), but that doesn't help. Some ROMs give me "E:can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1" error and don't boot at all. I had a Nandroid backup, it goes through, but it gives me the same results. I would appreciate any suggestions. Thanks.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shrooms90:
Ok, but when i pluged my phone in yesterday it didnt show any sd card. It was recognized by odin but i wasnt able to get the sd card shown on the computer. How did he do that? Or did it just mount the card when the phone was pluged in?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shrooms90:
If clockwork works use the option 'mount and storrage' and then click on everything that says format (eg. Format boot, format system...)

Then try to recover with nandroid. If that doesnt work download odin and ur stock firmware and flash ot without repartition
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AV1985:
My brother in law's phone got bricked (I bricked it lol) - proper bricked.

I went to the repair center and they said they'd have to send it to Samsung and it'd take about a week or so.

I spoke to O2 (phone came from them) and they arranged a doorstep swap for the very next day! I think this was because it was within the 28 days (was even within the 14 days!) but it may be worth speaking to the people you got the phone from before sending it in for repair.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dr. Cool:
SGS Horror Story (I Was Dumb->Bricked)

I have a Three branded Galaxy S I9000 (/paperweight) which I got a couple of days ago. I was recklessly eager to get it rooted, lag fixed, and 2.2’d and on the day I got it, FULLY FULLY bricked it.

I’m posting just in case there’s a solution I missed or for some advice when it comes to getting it repaired, and to serve as yet another warning by example.

In short, I was very silly. I did not do my homework. This is NOT like overclocking for example, where nowadays you can often start tinkering before fully understanding what you’re doing.

What did I do? a) downloaded the One Click Lag Fix from Marketplace then ran the first step to root the phone. I only then found I couldn’t get into download mode, so..

b) tried running Dean-O’s ‘Easy Updater for Samsung Galaxy S I9000’. I followed all the steps right until the point where it put my phone into recovery mode, there was no option saying ‘install update’, so I went with the ‘apply sdcard:update.zip’ thinking I would be either applying the OCLF or the 3 Button Fix – win either way right?

Negatory. Instead it was lose... cry: some large blue text appeared at the bottom the screen for a split second (couldn’t see what it said, only a few letters as most of the text appeared to be outside of the screens viewable area). The phone then went off, and I haven’t gotten any activity out of it since. No lights, no ‘phone ! PC’ logo, nothing. The best I can get is a warm battery if I plug it in to charge.

I did try taking it into a local Samsung service centre (a Carphonewarehouse nearby) on the long shot they might be able to do something – they couldn’t do anything, and suggesting trying to get it back to Three. I’m at this point thinking my best bet is to send it back to Samsung instead, and hope they are willing to repair it. As, I figure, Three will spend some time faffing around with it, then realise they can’t do anything, and send it to Samsung anyway.

Thanks for reading!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marv101:
I doubt Samsung will do anything, especially after seeing this:

http://www.samfirmware.com/apps/blog/show/5267754-newsletter-by-samsung-electronics-
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] foxbat121:
Has you tried this thread yet: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=819551 ?

It should get your phone into download mode. Then you can load what ever firmware you want to.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fornowagain:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=819551

Make a USB resistor jig to force it into download mode, then flash it with odin.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dr. Cool:
Thanks foxbat/Forno. I did see that thread, though briefly reading it does say: "If the phone's bootloader is still intact, that is you see at least the white Samsung logo or the "PC ! Phone" logo on the screen, you should be able to force it...."

I'm sadly getting nada, no logo's, the screen is 100% blank.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] The_Double:
Upon reading the title, i hoped for a SGS related horror story exchange thread. :D

To bad, it's just another 'ohmygodibrickedmyphoneanddontknowwhattodoletsnotreadtopicspostedbyotherpeoplewhohadthisproblemaswellbutinsteadmakeanewone' thread.:(

But, your possibility's are:

1. Try the JIG trick.

2. Say that it just didn't turn on again, as they have no way to check your story, they will have to give you a new one.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cezar`:
Did you try pop out battery, pop it back in, push vol down + insert USB?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SamsungGalaxySamsung:
with some specific software you can get into bootloader and from there you can factory reset.

There is also an option to get into download mode and flash another rom even without an working 3 button combo;)

Search in the forum and you will get the answer.

if you posted this in the correct sub forum (q and a) i would gave you the answer directly :D
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] delly47:
yeah this doesnt work for the Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 message
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ziadau:
i have this everytime i flash a froyo rom with repartition ticked in odin. cuz one of the system file is missing i believe.

anyway flash back to stock rom then reflash froyo with the repartition unticked. has been good
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Freija:
[Q]**FML**I9000m Bricked, stuck in boot loop. Download mode works, recovery does not.

So I had just gotten Doc's JPO firmware up and running on my phone. I had hardcore's VI 500mhz kernel on it too. Everything was running great, absolutely spectacularly. Smooth as butter. I had everything working throughout the evening but before I went to bed, I picked up my phone and noticed my lock screen with frozen. It wouldn't take any inputs, and I noticed the time was frozen too. (The phone read 5:11 AM, but it was 5:18 AM)

I yanked the battery and tried to restart the phone.

That's when the **** hit the fan.

It would boot up and I would black and white Galaxy S GT-I9000 screen but it would immediately go black and the Galaxy S screen would come up again. There was no animated S boot screen. The phone was stuck in a boot loop.

I tried to boot into recovery mode (Vol Up + Home + Power). No dice. It would go into the same failed boot loop.

So I tried download mode. Hey! It worked! I'm safe.

I read up on the forums and I figured flashing back to JPK with Odin might fix things.

Nope. I was wrong.

I tried multiple times. I tried flashing the PIT first and then everything else after. Nope. Didn't work.

I still got the same damn boot loop.

So I'm figuring... Is this a hardware failure? I pray God it isn't. It still goes into download mode, so it's not like I blew the CPU. I really don't want to have to return my phone. My i9000m is a Bell phone, but I'm using it with another carrier, Rogers.

I walk into that Bell store, they are going to give me Hell. No questions asked.

Please tell me there a way to fix this. I don't mind if it's complicated. I don't mind if I have to rip open my phone and start soldering things. I can solder. I've been burned by hot irons before. I can take the pain.

I am absolutely dead tired right now. I'm not thinking straight anymore and I don't want to risk blowing my phone even harder. This rambled and desperate post is the last I can muster before I pass out.

I'm going to upload a video tomorrow. Hopefully that will help you guys understand what's going on.

Sigh. At least I still have my Nokia e71 to stick my SIM card into.